Sentence examples for state testing from inspiring English sources

Is state testing good or bad for poor kids?

DECEMBER 2003 The director of state testing resigns.

Connecticut has long been considered the gold standard of state testing programs, mixing multiple choice and essays.

Both times the state testing program discovered the toxin and aquaculture officials closed the shellfish beds until it had disappeared.

Under Mr. Bush's plan, federal financing would be withheld if schools failed to meet state testing standards.

JACKIE PARKS, a third grade teacher in Atlanta, where 35 educators were indicted in a scandal over state testing.

The state testing system is based on these standards and used the best theory and knowledge available at that time.

There is a way to maintain standardized state testing -- necessary as an objective measure of student performance -- and to keep teachers reaching toward their "Mr. Chips" potential, too.

And as much as children dislike tests -- a phenomenon that predates the inkwell -- many parents and educators also have nagging concerns about the premium put on state testing.

In early May 1999, when Professor Sanders received Tennessee's scores from CTB, he knew from his own data that they could not be right, state testing officials said.

A state testing system that produces a test with what appears to be a 70percentt failure rate is way out of kilter.